Wednesday, April 16, 2025

FHIR, Smart Forms and Data Collection

The AHERC's smart forms are pretty neat: https://github.com/aehrc/smart-forms


My day gig - a product called CareRight - does a lot of pretty special things with customisable forms and in-clinic followup automations based on your answers. But right now we are an island, reaching out to others to communicate - email, SMS, secure messaging - any channel we can find.

What excites me more than the status quo over the next few years is the idea that you can visit a doctor at location A with System B, upload a StructuredDataCapture FHIR questionnaire to my health record or secure messaging, and specialist X with system Y gets an instant understanding of who you are and what you need.

While it may take a little while for these ideas to fully gain traction in the Australian PAS/EMR ecosystem, it feels like it's just around the corner.

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